Virgin Media has been fined £28m for repeatedly preventing customers from cancelling contracts, Ofcom said. It said millions of phone calls from customers were “likely mishandled” over nearly a three-year period which prevented or delayed customers from switching to a better deal. The communications regulator said it found “deliberate call-dropping” tactics, as well as customers…
Australia’s consumer watchdog has sued Amazon, claiming the tech giant introduced adverts in Prime Video using allegedly unfair contract terms. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Amazon had broken consumer protection law by making the unfair contracts with over a million annual subscribers between November 2023 and August 2025. “Consumers who wanted to…
When Tommy Fisher set out to build a section of border wall in South Texas during the first Trump administration, the project quickly became ensnared in controversy. Experts raised concerns about shoddy construction and signs of erosion. Beyond that, Fisher’s company had received funding from a group called We Build the Wall, an influential conservative…
DENVER ― The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded three new contracts to providers of commercial satellite data, a senior spy satellite agency official said today. Pete Muend, the head of NRO’s Commercial Systems Program Office, told the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s annual GEOINT Symposium here that latest awards under the agency’s Commercial Solutions Opening…
WASHINGTON — Ten months after Congress passed its reconciliation effort, only $26 billion of the roughly $152 billion earmarked for defense has been placed on contract, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said today. However, Hegseth told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that the money is set to start flowing soon, saying, “we’ve got the…
WASHINGTON ― The Space Rapid Capabilities Office (Space RCO), in partnership with the Space Force’s innovation arm SpaceWERX, has awarded three small companies contracts worth $3 million each to develop new radar warning receivers to equip future highly maneuverable satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO). The awards to Assurance Technology Corporation, Raptor Dynamix and Innovative…
Boldly going: The US Space Force has awarded $13.7 billion in contracts to SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 program. The contracts run through 2029 and mark the first time three companies will simultaneously handle top-priority military satellite missions – signaling a new era of competition…
